PG Connects Helsinki Digital

The Global Games Industry Conference ONLINE

Also featuring: Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital event

Monday, Sept 14 – Friday, Sept 18, 2020

Following two fantastic digital events in 2020, Pocket Gamer Connects will celebrate this year’s Helsinki edition online too!

The need to connect and do business remains as strong as ever, despite many of us being isolated at home. We had hoped that IRL games industry networking events would return to normal as the year continues, but we’ve accepted that 2020 is going to be an unusual one all the way to the winter.

So let’s keep the momentum going by squishing our traditional Helsinki edition together with our world-beating Digital editions to create an online event that you can join no matter where you’re working from!

And while we’re about it, do join our partner event about blockchain gaming. Your ticket enables access to both events, PG Connects Helsinki Digital and Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital – one mega week of conference activity.

Our pledge: we will continue to work incredibly hard to distil as much of the content and spirit as we can from the traditional PG Connects events you have come to know and love over the last seven years, and hone the format so it can be as genuinely useful as possible. That means expert talks, panels and round-tables, an improved digital meeting system, digital versions of Big Indie Pitches and fringe events like Publisher SpeedMatch, a pitching event for blockchain developers, and more surprises too.

Expert Insight

As one of an expected 1,500+ delegates, you will have access to an innovative online platform for five days in September.

You’ll be able to select from a programme of great live video content full of insight and practical advice across ten themed conference tracks. We will be celebrating the best of fantastic Finland, the spiritual home of mobile gaming, but also casting the net wide to bring you the most insightful content from around the world. You can watch the tracks live or catch up on the recorded videos within your own time, and if you’re online while the speakers are performing you’ll be able to interact with them and the other viewers with questions and comments.

We’ll unveil the speakers and schedule progressively on the official sites (www.pgconnects.com/helsinki and www.blockchaingamer.live) and through our media channels, PocketGamer.biz and BlockchainGamer.biz.

You can expect the usual inspiring talks from over 250 speakers who will educate and inspire through an agenda of themed tracks set to cover monetisation and growth, global game trends and company culture, development tools and stories and strategies to thrive in the modern gaming market be it mobile, PC, console, blockchain or XR.

24-Hour Networking For All

On top of the talks, you’ll also be able to search and connect with other attendees, to meet, discuss, do deals and make plans using the MeetToMatch online meeting platform. The platform will go live a couple of weeks ahead of the event.

Plus we’ll also be running online variants of our celebrated Big Indie Pitch, Investor Connector, and Publisher SpeedMatch activities, that will bring together specific groups with specific needs. Please register your interest at the links below and we will send you details…

INVESTOR CONNECTOR (developers, publishers and investors)

PUBLISHER SPEEDMATCH (developers and publishers)

BIG INDIE PITCH (all platforms welcome)

The event is called Connects because that’s what we help you do; connect with the whole gaming industry, from students and indie studios to the media, international investors and publishers. No other event puts you in touch with the entire mobile gaming industry like our Connects conferences, and this remains true of PG Connects Helsinki Digital and Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital.

Most of the benefits of an IRL conference!

We’re not going to pretend that this online event will have all the benefits of a regular conference. There are no free drinks for a start (although you could crack open a bottle at home), no booths to wander or cool freebies to pocket, you obviously don’t get the thrill of visiting a great Finnish city (unless you already live there, in which case: sorry we won’t get to quaff lonkero with you this year) and generally there’ll be less of those incidental catch-ups and spontaneous meetings that often make the whole thing worthwhile.

We’re also not going to pretend we’ll get everything faultlessly perfect, there’s a lot of tech platforms involved and we’re evolving our approach all the time. But we know that you understand all that, you’re in the games business, right? Everything is a work in progress, even after it’s released! We also feel sure that you’ll lend us your patience, trust and support to try and pull off something that can genuinely help us all stay connected, doing business and having fun through these challenging times.

Established International Audience

More than 27,000 industry professionals have attended the Connects international conference series since 2014. Since then, the roadshow has landed in the UK, Canada, USA, Finland, Hong Kong, Jordan and India with a genuinely international client base; on average, delegates from more than 45 countries attend each event. With the advent of the Digital conference, we have seen this number grow! There were 68 countries represented at our June online event, and in 2020 we know that over 70% of our audience works in game creation/publishing.

In 2016, PG Connects became the biggest dedicated mobile games industry conference series in Europe and has stayed on top ever since. Every event has been bigger and better than the last, and since 2017 we’ve added VR/AR, PC, console and blockchain to the mix. Our Digital events in April and June smashed expectations with over 1,400 attendees.

Previous speakers and delegates from all the key industry players include Supercell, King, Space Ape Games, Niantic, SYBO, Tencent, Mythical Games, Unity, Jam City, Skybound, Apple, Rovio, Disney, Super Evil Megacorp, Wargaming, Kabam, NetEase, NTT Docomo, Ubisoft, Facebook, Google, Square Enix, Microsoft, Electronic Arts, Gameloft, Sega, Capcom, Twitter, Snapchat, Twitch, NaturalMotion, N3TWORK and many, many, many more. If you’d like to speak at PGC Digital, or another of our upcoming events, please sign up using our Speaker Submission form.

And because Steel Media owns and operates the leading media in this space too, including PocketGamer.com, PocketGamer.biz and PCGamesInsider.biz, our events benefit from unrivalled press coverage. A combined website readership of well over a million users a month, 300,000 engaged Twitter followers, nearly 120,000 subscribers on YouTube, all await. Our events include opportunities – like a Journalist Bar (operating in Discord for our Digital events) – where you can show writers and editors your games.

Book your ticket today!

Select your ticket above and follow the simple online booking system. Payment is required at the time of booking, so please have your credit or debit card ready.

Group bookings from the same company: to arrange a discount on block bookings, please contact us if you wish to purchase more than 5 tickets, via lisa.bisset@steelmedia.co.uk

Please note the final ticket price is in £UK, and conference tickets may be subject to UK VAT at a rate of 20%. You will be sent a VAT receipt by email along with confirmation of your booking.

A ticket gives access to both Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital and Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital – both events take place using the same meeting platform and the event content will be visible to all attendees.

Journalists: free media accreditation is possible. Please request access from dave.bradley@steelmedianetwork.com

If you have expertise to share and would like to be considered for a speaking slot, please submit a talk idea using our online form.

For sponsorships or other business development opportunities please contact the sales team via lisa.bisset@steelmedia.co.uk and chris@steelmedia.co.uk

For all other questions, please contact support@pgconnects.com

Terms and conditions apply. For full details please visit www.pgconnects.com/terms-conditions

Joint G-STAR package: save 20%

We are proud to present a special option for those looking to save even more on additional online events this year.

On November 17-21, South Korea will celebrate G-STAR, a huge international exhibition and conference for the games industry. Every year it’s a chance to connect with the world’s largest games market, because it represents the most friendly and accessible route to the enormous APAC games industry (with Japan, China and the ever-growing SEA market alongside it’s very much in the ascendancy)!

G-STAR will be held online this year, and standard tickets cost $100. But book your ticket at the same time as your ticket to Pocket Gamer Connects, and you’ll receive 20% off the whole package!

Can you afford NOT to attend? G-STAR is the biggest show in Korea (the world’s fourth largest market on its own); all the top Korean companies will be together and eager to connect; plus meet leading Japanese, Chinese and SEA companies too; the region is super-friendly and accessible – everything is in English; it’s a digital edition this year so you don’t even have to fly; there’s an easy access meeting system to make connections, then video calls for face-to-face; and it includes access to G-STAR conference tracks and fringe events.

PG Connects is a partner of G-STAR. Buying your ticket through Eventbrite with this combined package means you’ll take part in Pocket Gamer Connects Helsinki Digital, Blockchain Gamer LIVE! Digital and G-STAR (all online) and save 20% off the lot.

Simply choose a + G-STAR option when you hit TICKETS, above.

Please note that we will need to pass your information to G-STAR for the purposes of processing your ticket if you register with this combined ticket offer.